The New York Herald Newspaper, December 24, 1867, Page 4

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By special tolegram through the Ationti in Moronce, yeeterday, we jearn that Gene Promier of Italv, placed bis resignation 07 office in tho | hands of the King in consequence of tho adverse vote of the Legislature on bis Roman polic sters remained at their post pending bis Mu 8 dee! ite acooptance. li is said that Baron Ratazzi will con- Biruct a Cabinet hostile to France. France, it is alleged, is considaring the return of her troops to Rome. France and ttaly are ta negotiat for the abrogation Of the September Convention. Italy refuses to interest on the debt of the provinces takoa from the Chureh, and Pravee protests, The Pope issued a con. gratulatory aliccution um bis eseaps from Garibaldi, The Iatian 1s nt will, it ts aaid, revitirm the | pational ciaim io Rome. | Tho Feria panic hag diod out in Enginnd, and the | London journals recommend the tallest morsures of amotioration of the condittun of Ireland, | Consols coed aL 0254 for money in London, Pive- twenties wero a: 723) a 7234 in London and 77 in Sank. fore, Tuc Pars Youre was firmer and rentes hi ¥ vanced. Tuo Liverpool cotton mark % vpiands at 164, dal. Provisions quiet, THE CiiyY. and Seerety celeb f the The New Engi of the and nor at Dolmon Bonry Ward thors. Tue report of (ho Excise Board, which gives statistics of the working of the Board since ite organization in April, 1864, is published, During ( 808 Neonses were granted, the gross anount tod the anniveras ms in the ous ay. Spi hor, Generals Sherman and paymont thoreof being $2,655,858. OF these licenses 199 wore revoked. tu tho Board of Aldermen yesterday the special Com. mittee on Tavern and Kxcise Licenses rey recummor © authorizing t establish a bare xcise, Which shall por suck powers as arc now held by Commissioners, Toe repor lengthy opiaion of tho Cor; ‘ordered to be priuted and Iaid over, ‘Tho trial of Margaret Waish, alias Fanny Wri concladed iast evening in the Goneral © jury rendered a verdict of “Guilty of iwurd second degree,’ acd Recorder Hackett sentenced her to tmprlsonmont for tife in Whe Stata Prison. Tho stoamsiip North Amorica, for Rio Janeiro, &e, | which was to have been despaicbed to-day was beea detained until another day. + The steamship C. W. Lord, Captam Ward, pie 2 Kast river this afternoon for @ » The stock market was firm yosterday morning, but afterwards decl‘acd, closing steady. Goveramont secu- rites were firm. Gold closed at 1855; a 4. Business in overy departinent of trad» in commere'sl circles was remarkably ligut, bat previous prices of al- most ali articles were sustained. Cotton was a trifle more active, bat at lower prices. Coifee was dull and w nominal. On ‘Change flour and wheat wore dall bat flem, while corn was stoady and oats _unchan Pork was firmer, ond beef and lard were unchanged. Freights remained dui, Naval stores aud petroleum were steady ®t provious prices. ‘Tne demand for eof cattle yesterday was ouly mode. Fately active, and prices of almost all grades were fully 240. per pound lower, exiras selling at 1c. 4 20e, per pound—the latter an outvide price; prime, 17 !;c. a 18.; Bret quality, 1c, 0 16. ordinary to good, ize. a 160, and inferior, Le, a The number on sale was about 1,800 head. Milch cows were unchanged, being in | moderato demand, and steady at prices ranging at | from $69 to $190, Veal calves were steady, with & moderate demand, at 12 extra, 100. 9 Lic for ordinary 0 and | Qe, for inferior, Sheep and tamt s Tait demand aod sieaty, while common was dull and Deavy, The eupply was large. Extra sheop were | quoted Te. a Po. , Coa » and iaf to 10 a sira lambs, Te. aThye., aud rongd, 6c. a6 ,553 102 mileh suoep and | end 29,11L swine, {{SCLLLAN EDS. Our mpeeis gtams from Havana contain later Feports trom ing, Porto Rico aud Veno- | suela Tho fore vietted Cup enoral Loreand) at bis po y. The festivities in tho capital will continue curred in 61. Domo Baez sad the Dor victorious General Pelxnco, of the Demin } army, was Killed, The lense of Samana for | hinoty-nine years is bo be offered to the Cited “tater ae on annual rent of 000, Lt \s underatood (hat Seore tary Seward hoe beea raphed by America cals in Caba, etrongiy advising him to deter tariwer procend- ng in relation to the purchase of St. Ihomas, Shocks ‘of eartnquake had boon felt in Porto Rwo and Voue- | eae, Oar Gosnon Ayres correspondence is dated Novawber 14. The news of a recent battle is condrmed, On ‘ovember & tho Parsgtayans attacked @ supply train tn ‘Bcamp of ton thousand men and captured It by the rad Of tho arsnult, ‘The allies fled in diemay, losing umbers in killed and wounded, Tho Paraguayans, ished with victory, commenced an indigerimnate pesnder, and soon in9al of them became reelug drum, ree day®. A fight Lad oo: betwooo the adberants of | the foriner provin | as ) tion. | down the road to dostraction. N&W- YORK HERALD, TURSDAY, DECEMBER 24. 1867. — At this juncture the | thom im tum and ‘0 of with a decided + biy in lose of guns. | among the ales The © ry, although eu ferit | the 8th « » afer a stormy gossion over the re- freal of | e Treasurer to pay thom, A ditaciment ‘ort 0 for Milledge vitle tast night, on seme | sarer, Obio, was killed bis home near Aiter the bis tnothe KS on ulo on at Hav ting to arre® The Governor of New Joreay bas rofused to pardon Welch, tue imurieror of ormay ab Nowark, Ho wil! } be hung on th of January, A tovomoiiy ei at Roading, Pe, yeslortiy, | tiling the e The banking house pendod yesterday. tt is sts their paper was ected in New York cit, Alarming Coudition of Country-Tho Gatheriug Eleweris of a Great sion or a The present condition of the country, in its financial, polit’cal and moral aspects, is truly ilarming. The grand carnival of the. war, with its disbursements of six or soven hundred Convui- Sweeping Revolution. | millions a year, is ended, and as the bills come in ior settloment we bogin to realize the tre- mendous pressure which is’ upon us of heavy taxations, widespread covruptions, general dc- pression in trade and universal dis rust. The Southern States, wrosted from the rebel- lion, are rapidly going down to ruin. The fail- ures in their crops since the war from droughts aud floods, and worms and frosts, have left the Southern plinters with their money and credit exhausted and uncertain as to the needful bread for their tamilies during the winter. The Southern negroos at the same time, shift- less and wasteful, have, as the rule, consumed their scanty carn ngs, and with starvation aring them in the face there is a pre- g sense of dangor that they may, there and everywhors, without a moment's warning, in their bioody re- prisals, insugurale a reign of terror enda war of races. General Gillem’s report oi the dreadful condiiion of things in Miasis- sippi will apply more or .less to all the rebel Slates trom Virginia to Texas. They are ail driving on from bad to woree, and unless some speedy and comprehensive moasures of relief and reform are interposed the civilized world, within a few short months, may be shocked "| With the. revival in ‘the great republic’ of tndse horrible scenes of St. Domingo which mavke i the Airican movements there for negro equality and negro supremacy, We have no doubt that with the reassembling of the two houses of Congress after Now Year’s thoy will, by official facts and vouchers, be faliy convinced that between the impover- ished whites and the swarms of idle and desti- tute blacks in the unreconsivucted rebel States there is serious danger of a reign of robbery, violence and blood. Politically divided, as tue inhabitants of thoso States already are, into the white man’s party and the black man’s party, it will require the most skilful handling to prevent ® general rising between the two races for a mutual war of ex- termination. There may, perhaps, be some scenes of this characier among the holiday di- versions of the Sout, while our national law- makers are enjoying their Christmas festivities in the North and deluding themselves with the fllacy that they have wrought or are bringing about the reign of “peace on earth and good will to men.” And what is the slate of things in the North? Our merchants are doing little or nothing, thongh selling at less than cost; our manu- factories, to a ruinous extent, are suspended or cut down in their operations; our mechanics, in still increasing numbers, are thrown out of employment; the unemployed and the destitute in ali our great cities are more numerous now thon they have beea in any month of Decom- ber for thirty years. Hard times is the gene- ral ery, and before they can be better there is a general apprehension that thoy will be worse. There is no confidence in the present head of the national Tressury, and there is no confidence of any substantial or seasonabdle relief from this radical Congress. Why should there be, when all the legislation of these radical reformers since the collapse of the rebellion has been devoted to the negro—to negro philanthropy, freed- men’s bureaus, negro equality, universel negro suffrage and Southern negro supremacy ? These reckless radical fanatics, ia all these schemes looking to a political negro bilance | of power for mere porty parposes, have been sowing tho and they will reap the whislwiad. @ 1 destitution and threat- ened disorders violence and blood ia the coneral stagnatioa, depression and dix trust in the North; oppressive taxations, re- in decreasing receipts to the Treesury from sill Inereasing revenue freads and corruptions, are firing up the public mind to the white heal of a great political revolu- It is coming. and in the face of the overwhelming issues at stake the mere nom Soath ; sulting wtiul and fame of this min, that man or the other | will be atterly eclipsed in the Presidential ee teion, Grant, Hoacock, Chase, Seymour, Pendleton, Vallandighaw, Fernando Wood, and all other Presidential candidates, will be sub. ordinated to the great issucs which aro des- tined in 1868, as in 1840, to sweep over the country like a tornado, This radical Congress has been wad is bureyitg the country headlong lt is lending ue rapidly towards bankrap!ey, revulsion, repn- diation and chaos; but there is stili the Inst revort of the poople. From the deplorable state of the country and from: all the siyns of the times we expeot from the people nothing short of & sweeping political rovolution ia our national elections ot 1368, trou Maine to Callfornia. ita reorganized and aviackea | od them fearfully, coming considerse Toe cholera bad disappeared from | onvention adjourned yesterday until | sud lo bo connected with (he refusal of the yadian Martinment adjourned on Satuntay until of Merch Several precautionary acts against | shout’? persussion prowl aroun oe wore passed and approved by the Gov- ofilees, and lawyers’ pen a + im the Washington fntelligencer of y ee <otbel anata wded a4 an initintory etop towards | unfortunate ‘tomy formally in the fetd for 2 nomin | Iugly ahead of | entiat Conv a, | ing w and vuiside dw repubiicun member of Cone | oe. oumh closemnc Sunday night to fob the | Bass., and on the borgtar be instantly kMlod, the burgiar Dickens and the Dev!! Among the Theatres. Since the. orig nator of Sam Wollor and Seirey Gamp formed » compact with the “Devil's Auction” at Niblo’s the other thertres seem to be on the high road toraia, The lights burn dim, the tre surers look blue, and even | the fiddlors scrape away with apsihy, anh: ing the scowls of che leader o° the vindictive j; tap of his baton. Ma officers and old, corly-headed gen th of tho. “shemt per | | | ms emed to por nd legal «moke, and rle Boston 1 But there phur and all i ion” at Nidiy’s , and enough, with th ol to have the loss of the ¢ enough red 4 ons should redect on the seri- ous conse cea of ontering into parinership with his brimstone highness. There is only one avenue of cserpe for him. Let bim remove the widespread dissatisfaction that exists at present on account of the manner in which tho tickets for his readings have boen disposed of, and let him sell ai auction, so thal every one may have a chince of bearing him, and he will defeat the ticket speculators and restore public confidenoe. If he will give tho surplus money that he recsives from the auction sale of also defeat hiy Satanic majesty and place him- self in the ranks of the elect, Otherwise his compact with the “Devil’s Auction” may lead him into warmer regions than ever he dreamed of in his philosophy, Thore is no reason why there should be #0 much trouble about the Dickens tickets, or why agents or speculators ‘n this particular should make the public the victims of their “little game.” Dickens and Dolby are, of course, in this country for financial and not for philanthropic reasons, and have a laudable desire to collect as many “ Amorican Notes” a3 possible. But in order to fulfil their “ Great Expectations” it is necessary for the public to receive fuir play in everything connected with the sale of tickets. It would seem as if. those worthies who stand around the entrance of the hall on the Dickens nights, representing, with chattering : | iailions dye a balf per cenit on the proposed toreign :| foam is predicated upon the rate of xchango en London being nino per whieh is about the ruling rate. -| which would make us still more the servants » to ruin ell the other thes- | his tickets to some charitable institutions he will | Senator Sherman’s Funding IS 't. The bill which Mr. Sherman has reported | from the Finance Committee of the Senate tor | funding the national debt and for other ob- | jects should be eatled a bill to give thirty to _ forty millions of the peoply’s money to agents and stockjobbers, To all appearance there is | & big job in the bill, whethor Mr. Sherman is | aware of it or not, The one per cept to be allowed as commission for eonvertiny fifteen hundred millious into a fended debt in this country would amount to fiffcen millions; for | the foreign torn of fives hundred millions at threo enda ha!f por cont would be sevenicen Ired toonsand, This three and | | j ration would be, ‘¢ hundved thou- ll probability there would be kings in this gigantie job. nes’, directness and sim- ¥ ves the operation open to oil sorts of tricks which money brokers and agoals know how to use. When suityble time arrives jor funding the debt e conversion be made by clear and ex- laws of Congress, and let the Troasury Department be the solo ngency. An‘ instead | of being so anxious to place the debt abroad, Luvopean capiialisis and drain all the spec'e nut of the country from year to year to pay the interest, we should follow the exampie oi Maglond and France, and keep as much of it ss home as possible. The burden of a great lebt is felt much less when the interest is paid at home and spread among the people who i owe it, This mighty and rich nation should not be so dependent upon the Old World. Another bad feature of this bill is that pro- viding for taxing the bonds at home and then distributing the amount collected among the | several States. This is proposed in order that the bondholders may contribute, as the hold- ers of all other bonds of property do, to the support of the State governments, the States not having the power under the constitution to tax securities of the federal government. Tho object is right. No one will say that the bond- holders ought not to bear their share of taxa- tion. But the plan proposed to reach that ob- | ject is full of evil. It would lead to corruption and discord, and In the attempt to get around the constitution would virtually subvert it; it would create a grand corruption fund by which the federal authorities, with the State au- thorities and leading politicians, could control elections and enrich themselves; it would tend to turn the States into mere provinces and give the federal government power over all local affairs; it wonld be a great stride toward nascent imperialism under a republican farm of government. Doubtless there are difficulties. in the way of reaching the object, but it can be reached without re- sorting to this vicious and dangerous plan of | | | | teeth, the peculiar advantages of their reserved | disiribution. At all events, Congress should seats, were trained in the school of Fagin the Jew, ond were so many “ Artful Dodgers” in the disposition of their tickels, They can be effectually thwarted by having all the tickets sold at auction, The cause of all this excite- “mentowes it to the public and to himself to put a stop to these cormorants and pe tho " consequences of his sulphuric pariiersbip by crush the monstrous proposition in ils birth. If the Senate Finance Committse or Congress cannot propose anything better than this bill to regulate the national finances we should rather drift along ss we are going till the coun- try becomes more enlightened and abler legislators are sent to Washington. sending a remittance to our charitable institu- tons. Celebration of the Angela Massacre. Oar correspondence from Buffalo’ which we published yesterday described the cere- monies witnessed by an immense crowd in the “large Contral depot on Exchange street” at the funeral of the unclaimed charred bodies of the victims of the railroad disaster at Angola. A p'aiform, one hundred teet in length by twenty deop, draped in mourning, was crected on the south side of the depot. Nineteen hpxes “containing the charred re- maios of the unfortunate atrangsrs” were placed on each side of a desk occupied by the clergy. The city clergy, the Mayor and C.ty Council, “the rallroad officials” and the choirs of the different churches, with “a large m~- lodeon to aid in the singing,”’ filed the stand, around and in front of which ther» were fully eight thousand spectators, After the religious exercises at the depot a long procession ac- companied the remains, which weve borne in the wagons of the American Express Com- pany, draped in mourning, drawa by four bay horses and flanked on either side by pall- bearers, to St. Paul’s Cathedral, where thoy were deposited in « vault, and the burial service was read by the Rev. Dr. Shelton. The ceremonies were no doabt solemn and impressive. But the first hymn that was sung ot the depot (the famous hymn, “I would not live alway,” by the Rev. Dr. Muhlen- borg, one of the celebrated hymnologista, whose name we had occasion to cite on Sun- day) seems to have been, to say the least, a curiously inappropriate selection. It almost tuggesis the ides that “the railrond officials” had unconsciously turned the whole affair into a solemn mockery. If they really imagined thai the victims of this terrible disasier were so anxions “not to live alway” as to have deliveratoly exposed themselves to destruction by a railway accident they could no! have se. lected a more appropriate hyma. Why not have a verse or two of this hymn printed on the reverse of each pyssenger ticket ? Seriously, the culpable neglivence of railway companios— and the sad fale of the late Mr. Kempston com- pels us to add, of ferryboat companies, #lso—to provide aga‘nat such shocking casualties as sre daily reported in the newspapers cannot be too severely condemned. The sirongost aud moat however, be unovailing until the indignation of the public shall be embodied in stringent Jawa, and antil these laws shail be rigidly ev- | foreed for the protection of hamen Hie. A Pertinent Question, General Gillem, of the Froedmen’s Berean, dition of the negroes in tha South, who are driven almost fo desperation from want. Why | lo not tho radicdl papers pwhlish it? Are they afraid to lay this terrible testimony of the bad legislation of their party before their read- ers? It looks like Feary Gaixs.—W the Board of Aldermen, for bumanity’s sake, call for the ordinance which was passed by tho Coungilmen three months ago requiting the ferry companies to erect gates on their bridges, in order that the lives of passengers may be protected: not some member of frequently reiteraied censuros by the press will, | and the United States—Tho Alabama Claims. The recently published correspondence ot Lord Stanley and Mr. Seward on the question of the Alabama claims makes it clear what is the relation which now subsists between the two governments. Lord Stanley has stated what Great Britain will do and what Groat Britsia will not do. Mr. Seward: has stated what the United States will do and what they will not do. Matters have been brought to a deadlock. Further correspondence is as unnecessary as it is undesirable. ‘The diplomatists have attempted to settle the question, but have failed. The settlement of the question must now be at- tempied by others. Great Britain vainly imagines that in the excitement of a Presi- dential clection the question will be forgotten, and that with the accession to power of a dif- ferent olass of politicians other an, as they have it, “wiser” counsels will. prevail. Such is agrand mistake. A new Congress and a new President, whatever they may do, will not alter the sentiments of the Ameri- can people on this question; and the American people are thoroughly satisfied that in recog- nizing the Southern confederation as a bellige- rent Power Great Britain not only violated 8 principle of internation:! law, but made her- self answerable for the destraction of our com- mercial navy. There is only one way of escape for Great Britain, and that is to make a handsome apology and to pay down the money. France is not without guilt in the matter. But we have had ample satisfaction in that quarter. We have seen Napoleon, with his tail between his lega, waddle away from Mexico. What more can we ask? Napoleon, after all, is a gentleman. Great Brital An Appeal to Congress. The conditfon of the Southern States be- comes more alarming and more pitiable every day. The blacks are not only destitute, but desperate, Conspiracies to seize the lands and murder the white people are but the natural resulls of forcing the ignorant negroes into a false position. Thess poor creatures eannot be expected to compreh nd the dividing line between equality and supremacy. They have | been taught that the negro in the South is the superior of the white man, and we can hardly blame them if they seek to exercise tho right of conquerors to oppress the inferior race, But all this is franght with dire misebief—all the greater, too, because physical necessity, in | tho shape of Sunger and absolute destitution | | and hopelessness, has driven the negroes to | desporation. We have heard the warning | voice from military officers and the Governor has written a report leseribing the awfal com 4 in Mississippi; and the danger of violeace and a struggle for bread, pointing directly to a war | of races, it not the exception in the Southern | States, but the rule, These resulis are throat- | ening everywhere under the pressure of sterva- tion amd want of employment, Congress bas been appealed to very em- phatteally by a distinguished General, located in @Soathorn milliary district, to interfore, in behalf of humanity, to save both negroes and planters from the ultimatum of starvation and riotous warfare. Now, will Congress set aside its party squabbles and aitend to this. groat anosijoat A most atrociqus aystgm of logisle- mediate action to relieve the Southern people, tion has reduced the South to its present haa- ardous and deplorable condition. It is the duty of Congress now {o listen to the stite- monis of these officials, who write of what they know, and to give heed to them by taking im- bisck and white, ia their present great emer | gency. The Cuvard Mail Contract—American Ocoau Postage. The new contract between tho British gov- ernment and the Cunard Steamship Company for the conveyance of the Anglo-American mails involves a very heavy expen liture—say eighty thoussad pounds sterling for one year, and this outtay forms a subject of comment in Pcrliament. To reconcile the members of the | House of Commons to te agreement Mr. Hunt, | M. P., speaking officially, assured them that ‘the contract would be self-supporting, inas- much as the back postage from Am which the Cunard Company woul! acount to | the Postmaster General of England, would | almost bulance the subsidy.” In this point of view the arrangement pre- sents the most extraordinary commercial | anomaly of the citizens of th» republic pay- ing, without any equivalent, as it appoirs to us, in postage rates tho cost of eu English mail conlract, This arises from the course pursued by Congress towards the Collins steamship and other American mil lines which have been permitied to languish and expire for want of government patronage, a8 well as tho depreciation of our commercial marine, produced by the action of Enzland in the belligeront rights recognition of the Jeff Davis confederacy. The money gain is with Englond at presont, ag appears from Mr. Hunt’s explanation. interests in the Pacife funder such 9 naval. station absolutely necessary. Japan, by last move, bas taken a placg far Cuina, and it is for us to cultivate with the former still closer relations. There is yot to some practical account. L COMMITTEE. BADICAL REPUBLICAN A specie! meeting of the Radical Republican General ~ Committee, beivg the last assemblage of that body, was held last orening at headquarters, corner of Twenty- second street and Broadway, Cuarles 8. Spencer, the President, occupied the chaif, The first buriness trans. acted was the adoption of a recommendation made by the Executive Committee of the ormanization, that the primaries for the election of a new gomun iitec for the year 1868 bo held in each Assembly district on Monday evening next, and that the president of each Assembly District Aesoviation be empowered to appvint thew. spectors of such election, Mir, Warvo Hucurs, from the Special Committee ap- 10 investigate ce:toin allege! irregularities im act fairs in the ightn district at the Jast that the commétteo were uneble to min tho matter, aa he alicgations of parties wore supporied by temite ofter any each of the poaicd for election ex;ons 8 in the Z ghth dis riét, as Well w {6 q.O8 Of repubrcaN Licko.s LO DE used there, had been given to Me. John W, Pacwner, the ent of ihe Dh urct Republican A-soeiztion, and t god (hat proper uso was no! do of’ oither. Was bo deprive pectora to com~ ciection, while "he other party were stronvous mn defending that gentomsn from the allegations mato couce: oy and the tickets, After a deat of earnest in, Coro! =at cd by this geno @.ection in the Bighih distr ct. dn, Hurcwns opposed the motion, and moved as subsiiture that the comiuittee now charged with the matter be continu d, to act as an advisory body im ea- do ivoriny t) eTect a ‘onciliation among the republi- cons of that diswvict, wh oh motion was flual!y agreed to. sir, Hurciins said that a commit been appointed from the republ cave of the Secoud district to present t@ the committee a statement of the a'teged Ee, un, der which the pariy wore (here laboring; he moved that tia. committee be heard before this body, A spirited discussion here arose as to allowing the committee to prevent its statement, the opponoats of, suca @ course contending that the dissatisied cana im tho Second districc wore of the conservative prima Parson Beccher (ioes to the Dovil——for an Iiustration. Mr. Henry Ward Beeohor rejoices that he is not a3 others are, and points his finger particu- larly at this wicked cicy. Ho says it is owned by the Dovil. It certainly is a wicked place, and it may be true that it is owned in hell, if there is any hell, and that the Devil is to be proprietor, if there is any Davil. But we do not believe it We do not believe that the evil would trouble himself with such a posses- sion. He would scorn to own a city not ten times as wicked. What are our vices, our crimes, our hypocrisies, to his appotite for evil? Mere crumbs, chaff, vapor. No, no, Thore is nothing on this Continent that the Devil would consider good game short of the city of Washington and the Congress of the United States. There is corruption, fraud, mag- nificently imagined vice, indescribable, depths and heights of evil fit to feed tho Devil’s thought, and that place is certainly the Devil’s “particular vanity.” but whois responsible for Congress—for that agglomeration of m2n to whom the most stupendous of all corruption is atrifie? Beecher. Noman over did more than he (not many men so much) for the propaga- ‘tion’ of that rank political growth, that mon- grel morality, by way of which the councils of the nation have degenerated to what they are. Beecher admits that he is a political preacher ; he defends himself in it; and his political ser. mons did much to foster that ruthless radi- calism that is now making the whole Southern country an infernal fen of misery. These be good works for a man to plume. himself upon in giving others over to the Devil. Proposed National Conservative Cenvention. Some of the Southern papers are endorsing recommendation adopted at a recent con- servative meoting in Georgia—that a national conyention of the conservatives of the Union be held in Louisville on the 22d of February, to take into consideration the restoration and preservation of the Union according to the prin- cipies of the constitution. Such an assemblage at thts {ime is not necessary. The gran con- servative convention of the nation will be held at the polls next November, when the people will cast their votes for President and Vico President ina manner that will hurl radical revolutionists, negro supremists and all black anarchists from power, and establish au ad- ministration in which wisdom, justice, modera- tion and fraternal feeling will prevail and the now paralyzed and fumishing South be restored in some degree to her former prosperity. That is the sort of convention to which the people of the United States should send fall ad powerful delegations, Mr. Speaker Colfax on Congress: Mr, Colfax says, “You need not fear that Congress will take any backward steps in re- construction.” This assurance was not needed by the people at large, howover much it may have been by Mr. Colfax’s friend. The revo- lutionary character of Congressional leaders is too well known for it to be thought that body can take backward steps. Did Robespierre take any backward step, or Danton, or even Napoleon? No. The remedy that the men who come to the surface in revolutionary times fiad for every difficulty is to go a little farther forward, and they go forward, never finding the Timit till thoy see it in their own rain; and it is fortunate at last, perhaps, for the peace of society that they-have such an intellectual con- stitution as to force the events that destroy them. Japan Opening Her Gates to the World. From a cable deapatch which we printed in yesterday's Herat we learn that on the 29th of January, 1868, the two ports of Hiogo and Osaka are to be thrown open to foreigners for settlement and commerce. A treaty has just by rnment of the | been signed jointly hy the government of the woe'tothed Bie T have written my thoughts (or footings rathor) lost a } verbal utlerance be pon ot a I wihaccen, ex | Your own private soul, to Tycoon aud the government of Queen Victoria which virtually opens Japan to the trade of the world, and which, from our increasing in- tercourse with that country, canuo! fail to prove Considering, in fact, that Japan occupies on the western shores of the North Pacific very much tho same position that the United States do on the eastern shores, it is impossible to doubt that the United States will at no distant day come in for the lion’s share of the profils. England, even now, is our only rival; but England cnn only act on Japan through India of immense advantage to the Uniled States. | im stripe, and in reality alders and abetters of the iT T mmavy Hall. The motion to hear the comm! wes: 10 carried, however. Me tt ves commi:tee) thoa said that {t was ds sired of this Geners' Committees to reorganize the prese eat republican assou'ation in the Second district for the reason that it was now managed by men who were un known to the majority of the republican voters; tas th-y ¢ ox no in‘erost in the cucceas of came didates, had provided no meetings eae | to their elece tion during tho last canvass, and failed to take any prnpec anpenares <0 Urlg ons fhe Capellan errs = the riot, After various propositions concerning this matter bern voted down the subject was finally laid on the! Mr, Les moved a vote of thanks to the officers General Gommitiee for the satisfactory mannor in they had discharged their duties during the past which motion was carried. Mr. Iva 0. Mi ER, tho Troasurer of the reported that during (he vear the recoipts of the Gem- eral Commitice wore 221,501, and the diabui $21,516 19, loaving a ta ance in the treasury of $74 BR . The indeb:ednosa of the organization (outstanding bills approved by the Executive Committee) was $1,361, The report was referred to the Executive Committes, after which the meeting adjourned sine die, NAVAL INTELLIGENCE, The United States frigate Guerriere, flagship of the South Atlantic squadron; the guoboat Huron, and the despatch stoamer Wasp, were at Rio Janeiro November 25, all well. The sioop Pawnce was at Bahia Novom- ber 29, with a'! on board woll. ROBBERY, ARSON AND MURDER AT HAVERHILL, MASS. A Bank Thiet Sho nd Kills a Policomaa— mone ne. baa i OO th am | {From tho Evening Telegr: Dee Se oe p There is great excitement in the neighboring Haverhill this merning over an attempt to rob rimao National Bank and the shooting of offcer ham by tho robber The afiair occurres isk A i i ; $ 3 i and a couple of officers started to In passing the bank thi board side, aud apprebending a rol made One of the officers stationed himself at the front ‘around os id sf a Be ‘one ‘windows out, and as he attempted to grapple rglar drew a pistol and ahot the officer through, hoad, killing him instantly, The supposition is that the robber and mu: one who set fire to the paint shop, and = — of diverting attention while Investigation proved that the lock of the outer of the bank vau't had boen charged with ignited, as the door was found to be blwn open a Pe fit Ha i {mches. No robbery, howover, was effected, as the proceedings of the thief were int es above described, but he made good his eacape. i MUDCED IN CINCINNATI [From the Evening Telegram of y: 5 Cincixatt, Deo, A cold blooded murder was committed last night Fifth beneg | Aa ee man, bamed was shot by araffian for morely jag against ‘Tho wounded mau ¢: so one afterwards, assasain made bis escape, but a person namod who is charged with the murder, was arrested ington this forenoon, petsia ee Aas ae ved THE ILLINOIS LUNATIC ASYLUM AFFAIR. Au Incident of the Legislative Lnvestiane tion. (Jacksonville, 111. (Deo. 20), corinne Casas) Re publican } The following letter is one of soveral unearthed Committee while McFariand. li Mra Packard loft the the Legislative Lovestigating im tating testimony against Dr. written some three months it i roth b d scera the relation ip you—uni You near enotgh to reo xguize the senses. | love your spirit, your must pot love your person so long as claimed by another worman—your legai wife, I widow, Dr. McParland, for my wedded. tts whole and sound and exe’pt as you, the Sret trac man [ nave copt it, I know this i# « bold step for you know I om dauntiess to the right | to love a true man, even if be iste | Farinnd ; and if he te (he true maa I take wou'tollead him or expose my bovor or virtue (o know of thiract. It must bewwesn ws, trusting man. ro of it { perverted own Ldart dos nat condemn me Woes God condema me for loving jon, will bo twenty-one the seveme Wi on) nev and should me wo against ibe rom rant ge Teen | seoret mm act, neither outrage from my with him as Protector, and take charge of Trenet war Gue Yours'in une ben o¢ [NTRAMATIONAL LitéRaRy UOURTESIEG.—A 1 janet! a fnete ara Gi ae wha and China, whereas our means of communica- panne) iter of Se na nent a tion are at once speedier and more direct. Never had our mercantile marine iiesred magnificent opportunity than it has at presont momont. It requires only enterprise and proper encouragement to make our com- morciat navy the finest and the largest in the world. Now is o ton ee » hogan have gone in eo extonsively purchasgs. to seoue Wands. Our nor has be Hives {is Ameren. ion, story visited London obscure, from Louis if : 3 wealth in Asia which it is in our power to tura